eBay Australia
Yes Please PayPal. Pay Me Later!
Paypal has released a new product in the US, called Pay Me Later.
According to the press release on May 15 2008,
Starting today, eBay buyers in the United States can take advantage of Pay Later’s financing offer of no payments for 90 days for qualifying purchases between $50 and $199.
With Pay Later, buyers now have more [...]
My Personal Experience with the eBay.com.au Feedback Changes
OK, so the feedback system on eBay.com.au has now rolled out.
The world is taking notice too, with some heated discussion on Ina’s blog AuctionBytes, and I am sure elsewhere too.
Let me start by saying it’s never going to be a perfect system. Of course there was always going to be opportunity to abuse the system, [...]
Has Your Feedback Score Worsened Recently?
If your eBay seller feedback score has dropped, don’t be too alarmed as many other sellers will notice the same thing in Australia.
eBay has just rolled out their feedback changes, now counting neutrals ‘as negatives’ when calculating your feedback, and ignoring feedback older than 12 months.
See the full list of changes here.
Most of our account [...]
eBay faces the angry mob in Melbourne last night
I have been catching up on the news this morning about eBay’s public meeting in Melbourne regarding the Paypal only changes coming in June.
I wasn’t surprised to hear that there was quite an angry mob asking questions of Simon Smith, Andrew Pipolo and Alistair MacGibbon.
I got invited to have an informal Q&A sessions with Andrew, [...]
PeSA Australia : Seller anger as eBay narrows payment options
PeSA Australia has released a press release today, in light of yesterday’s announcement from eBay Australia regarding the move to Paypal payment options on the site eBay.com.au.
Seller anger as eBay narrows payment options
Australian eBay sellers are angry at a policy change by eBay that will push transaction costs onto its sellers.
The new policy requires [...]
eBay Australia forcing sellers and buyers to use Paypal
In a big move today, eBay Australia announced that shortly only Paypal will be a viable payment option for sellers on the site, along with cash on pickup of items, and credit card payments (via Paypal).
According to the release :
These changes are part of our ongoing commitment to protect our members. We believe buyers will [...]
eBay continues to make changes - no more digital products!
eBay continues to make changes, and this time in Australia we get one too.
eBay.com recently announced that digital goods would be available to list only in a Classified Ad format and now eBay.com.au hasbanned them altogether. Apparently eBay.com.au will see if they can be supported in a Classified Ads format in future but for now [...]
No eBay fee changes in 2008 for Australia?
Most eBay sellers keeping track of the new would know now that eBay is going to announce fee changes this week, in summary (most likely):
reduction in listing fees
increase in final value fees
some sort of bulk discount for volume sellers
But, I have only seen mention of US, DE and UK markets in news and blogs around [...]
eBay Australia Improves Search Results
eBay Australia today announced that they have made improvements to their search.
eBay’s searching has annoyed me for ages. It never made suggestions, it showed far too ’specific’ results, didn’t suggest correct or alternate spellings (I love you Google) etc.
Now says eBay, “clever new algorithms mean the system can automatically link certain keywords within categories.”
Does it [...]
ChannelAdvisor Australia giving away free beer?
It is nice that ChannelAdvisor has an office here in Melbourne. Even nicer is that they aren’t far away, and they are a bunch of generous folk who have just held some Christmas drinks for a few important clients (oh, and they also invited us along after some arm twisting).
Heck, there was some free wine [...]
